As Digital Customer Experience (DCX) technologies continue to take center stage at many organizations, business leaders are faced with numerous questions about their contact-center platforms. This holds especially true for companies that are at or nearing end-of-life with their on-premises platforms. Many such companies have used...
For years, high agent turnover rates have been one of the biggest problems facing contact center leaders. Low pay, lack of promotions, or dealing with cranky customers day after day convinced all-too-many agents they needed to look for a different career. In the past three years, though,...
Omnichannel is on the rise. Organizations are adding new interaction channels for their customers. But adding new channels without integrating them may cause more frustration than satisfaction. Enter omnichannel. The technology enables contextual customer interaction information to pass between channels (agents or bots) in real-time, while also...
You’re moving to the cloud to hand off management, monitoring, and administration to a trusted third party. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Not so fast! Even in cloud environments, you likely will continue to manage provisioning and administration for employees, and potentially customers. At...
Few companies run a voice-only contact center anymore. On average, they use five types of interaction channels, according to Nemertes’ 2019-20 Intelligent Customer Engagement research study of 518 companies. That’s great, but which channels are the best to use, particularly in the rapidly changing world of...
Digital Customer Experience (DCX) efforts enables organizations to provide new means of engagement including via mobile apps, chat, virtual and augmented reality, and by using AI to improve engagement routing and response. As organizations invest heavily into DCX strategies, they are bolstering their contact center...
IT staffs have an incredible responsibility to implement and support enabling technologies to transform their companies. In fact, more than 70% of companies have digital transformation initiatives underway or planned, involving numerous technology deployments to drive business value. Before jumping into a technologically advanced digital transformation...
We measure success for Digital Customer Experience (DCX) initiatives in many ways – revenue generated, cost reduction ratings, or churn reduction, to name a few. But ultimately, we want customers to walk away elated from any interaction. A satisfied customer might say: “OK, that went well. I got...
The focus on customers is more intense than ever—and for good reason. External customers (consumers of products, patients, students, investors, etc.) can wield more influence than any advertising campaign or marketing program, thanks to social media, mobile messaging, and Web-based ratings. Happy customers can make a...
I have talked to many friends and colleagues who complain about people who don’t return calls, emails, and texts—either at all, or when they say they will. These are typically business-to-business or business-to-consumer interactions (vs. personal calls), where the supplier tells a customer: “Let me check...
Companies invest heavily in sales and marketing to grow their customer bases. What they do next to nurture those relationships—especially digital-only customers—leaves much to be desired. The good news is that’s changing as companies hire Chief Customer Officers who are increasing focus on Customer Engagement Management...
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